"I beg leave to repeat it: the French Revolution resembles nothing in history. It is satanic in its essence."
From Christopher Olaf Blum (ed. and trans.), Critics of the Enlightenment: Readings in the French Counter-Revolutionary Tradition (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2003), p. 165.
The original Spanish is:
ReplyDeleteLa guerra de la Vendée es único conflicto político que despierta mi irrestricta simpatía sin inquietar mi razón.
Cf. Joseph de Maistre, On the Pope:
ReplyDelete"I beg leave to repeat it: the French Revolution resembles nothing in history. It is satanic in its essence."
From Christopher Olaf Blum (ed. and trans.), Critics of the Enlightenment: Readings in the French Counter-Revolutionary Tradition (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2003), p. 165.